Don's Party

Don's Party is a 1971 play by David Williamson set during the 1969 Australian federal election.

[1] Don Henderson is a schoolteacher living with his wife Kath and baby son in the Melbourne suburb of Lower Plenty.

As a result, alcohol consumption increases, and the sniping between Don and his male friends about their failed aspirations gets uglier, as does their behaviour toward the women.

Mack, a design engineer whose wife has just left him, pulls out a nude photo of her for his friends' approval.

By the end of the night, Don and some of his friends have begun to grasp the emptiness of their compromised lives.